Md. Rakibul Hoque, Golam Sorwar
Background mHealth (mobile health) services are becoming an increasingly important form of information and communication technology (ICT) enabled delivery for healthcare, especially in low-resource environments such as developing countries like Bangladesh. Despite widespread adoption of mobile phone...
Md. Shamim Talukder, Golam Sorwar, Yukun Bao, Jashim Uddin Ahmed et al.
Wearable healthcare technology (WHT) has the potential to improve access to healthcare information especially to the older population and empower them to play an active role in self-management of their health. Despite their potential benefits, the acceptance and usage of WHT among the elderly are co...
Md. Rakibul Hoque, Yukun Bao, Golam Sorwar
PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to investigate factors that influence the adoption and use of e-Health applications in Bangladesh from citizens' (patients') perspectives by extending the technology acceptance model (TAM) to include privacy and trust. METHODS: A structured questionnaire survey was ...
Jahir Uddin Palas, Golam Sorwar, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Achchuthan Sivabalan
BACKGROUND: Despite the high usage of mobile phones in daily life in developing countries like Bangladesh, the adoption and usage of mHealth services have been significantly low among the elderly population. When searching previous studies, the researchers have found that no studies have empirically...
Justina Yat Wa Liu, Golam Sorwar, Mohammed Sajedur Rahman, Md. Rakibul Hoque
BACKGROUND: Evidence from the literature suggests that mobile health (mHealth) services can potentially improve healthcare outcomes among older adults. Hence, the government of Hong Kong has recently taken several community and information technology (IT) services initiatives to train older adults o...
Md. Rakibul Hoque, Golam Sorwar
Abstract Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become increasingly important for economic, social and political aspects of any countries. However, the “digital divide” between urban and rural areas has introduced a significant gap in equally accessing information, mass commu...
Md. Shamim Talukder, Raymond Chiong, Sandeep Dhakal, Golam Sorwar et al.
Purpose Despite the widespread use of mobile government (m-government) services in developed countries, the adoption and acceptance of m-government services among citizens in developing countries is relatively low. The purpose of this study is to explore the most critical determinants of acceptance ...
Golam Sorwar, Rahamn Md. Mustafizur, Ramiz Uddin, Hoque Md. Rakibul
Telemedicine has great potential to overcome geographical barriers to providing access to equal health care services, particularly for people living in remote and rural areas in developing countries like Bangladesh. A number of telemedicine systems have been implemented in Bangladesh. However, no si...
Golam Sorwar, Md. Rakibul Hoque
mHealth (mobile health) services are becoming increasingly important form of information and communication technology (ICT) enabled delivery for healthcare. Given widespread mobile adoption and potential benefits mHealth can bring, it is important to understand what motivates users’ acceptance and a...
Anupam Das, M. Mahfuzul Islam, Golam Sorwar
Most network applications such as pervasive computing, grid computing, P2P etc. can be viewed as multi-agent systems which are open, anonymous and dynamic in nature. Due to such nature multi-agent systems present potential threats in ensuring secured communication. One of the key feasible ways to mi...
Syeda Ajbina Nusrat, Jannatul Ferdous, Sara Binty Ajmat, Ameer Ali et al.
Data security is an important issue in healthcare system in Bangladesh, especially in a rural and remote area where proper medical care doesn39;t reach in time, and the infrastructures of the medical system in those areas are impracticable. Providing proper medical care to the citizens of rural and ...
Md. Rakibul Hoque, Golam Sorwar
The âdigital divideâ between urban and rural areas has introduced a significant issue in equal access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This inequitable access to ICT has implication for productivity and economic growth of the country...
Md Nurul Hoque, Golam Sorwar
mHealth (mobile health) be the blessing of ICT and is probably one of the most prominent services with noticeable effect on the development of healthcare sector. Given the potential benefits mHealth can bring to older people, it is important to understand the users (elderly population) intention to ...
Jahir Uddin Palas, Golam Sorwar, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Achchuthan Sivabalan
Abstract Background: mHealth (mobile health) has a far-reaching impact on delivering health services to a low-resource and remote population, especially elderlies with regular and emergency health needs in developing nations. Even though the high usage of mobile phones in daily life in developing co...
Anwar Sadat, Golam Sorwar, Morshed Chowdhury
Mobility service for hospital technicians involved in telemedicine applications is one of the key issues in providing more flexible and efficient in-house or remote health care services. Today, the Internet based communication has widened the opportunity of event monitoring systems in the medical fi...